Just a stranger trying things.

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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • In the case of ente, they have gone above and beyond to give full control to their users of their backing up process and backed up media:

    • they provide a sync feature from ente to a local destination on your computer using the desktop app. It can run continuously to reflect all changes to your media and its organization in ente.
    • they provide a CLI, so that you can program and implement your own export behavior it seems.

    To me, it really shows they care about the users and do their best to avoid vendor lock-in.

    And I personally feel much more confident in a company when their business model is a paid one. I’m a very happy customer, I have also convinced multiple people who seem happy too.


  • I will always remember my first experience using MacOS: I am comfortable with computers and a relative needed help with their recently purchased macbook. I had plugged in a USB stick to transfer some files and was done and wanted to eject it. I spent way too much time than I care to admit, trying all possible options, right-clicks, settings, everything imaginable, to eject the damn thing.

    It was impossible to me to find the simplest operation with a USB stick, something required to operate it. I capitulated and looked online. The solution? I had to drag and drop the USB stick icon into the trashcan!?!?!?

    To this day, I will never understand the absolute ridicule of this and I will never comprehend how anyone is expected to figure it out on their own. And this is from the OS touted as the most user friendly and intuitive. Go figure.

    Edit: this was a long while back, no idea how it is nowadays.





  • Have you explored your GPU and CPU and memory utilization? On Linux, mangohud is a great tool for this. Verify which component is bottlenecking you performance, you may see something happening when your performance drops.

    If something is visible, you may want to target it for an upgrade. If not, something else may be an issue. You may also compare with a fresh setup of nobara just to rule out any misconfiguration or other driver related issues?











  • Regarding photos, and videos specifically:

    I know you said you are starting with selfhosting so your question was focusing on that, but I would like to also share my experience with ente which has been working beautifully for my family, partner and myself. They are truly end to end encrypted, with the source code available on github.

    They have reasonable prices. If you feel adventurous you can actually also host it yourself. They have advanced search features and face recognition which all run on device (since they can’t access your data) and it works very well. They have great sharing and collaborating features and don’t lock features behind accounts so you can actually gather memories from people on your quota by just sharing a link. You can also have a shared family plan.